synaesthesia - an author's blending of human senses to describe an object., ode - A lengthy lyric poem, often addressed to an object or concept, containing elevated thoughts, synecdoche - A figure of speech in which a part or attribute is used to represent the whole, stanza - The blocks of lines into which a poem is divided, sibilance - Repeated s, sh, z sounds, semantic field - Group of words linked by meaning to one conceptual area, personification - Attribution of human feelings or characteristics to an inanimate object, persona - A voice/ character adopted by the poet in a first person poem, oxymoron - A figure of speech that joins words of opposite meanings e.g. the living dead, bitter-sweet, motif - A dominant idea or image that runs through a piece of literature, intertextual - Making clear links with other texts, foregrounding - Writing words/ phrases at the beginning of the line, to emphasise them, anaphora - Repeated words at the beginning of a line or phrase, allusion - Reference to another work of literature, e.g. the Bible, mythology, apostrophe - A direct address to a person or object, e.g. ‘Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird, assonance - The rhyme of internal vowel sounds, e.g. cool-rooted, ambiguity - Use of language/ ideas where the meaning is unclear and has more than one interpretation, caesura - A deliberate break in the middle of a line of poetry,

KS5 Literary terminology

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